mistakable
4.0
Easy to confuse with something else
- adjective
- /mɪˈsteɪkəbl/
:
confundible
- The two twins have such similar features that they are often mistakable for each other.
Examples
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In low light, the old car is mistakable for the newer model parked next to it.
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Her accent is so subtle that it's mistakable for a regional variation of English.
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Onetti's use of metonymy to conduct the reader into his alternate world of fiction, to suggest to him that an existence beyond empirical reach lies adjacent to the thin and mistakable words of this literary text, is evident from the first line.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
confusable
vsmistakable
7.7
So similar to another thing that people often mistake it for
has identical meaning but uses a different word form
Antonyms
How Likely
misleading
148
4.4
148
4.4
mistakable
4.0
confusing
276
3.2
276
3.2
ambiguous
68
6.3
68
6.3
clear
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
unmistakable
43
3.9
43
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mistakable comes from mistake, which is built from mis- meaning 'wrong' and take, and the ending -able meaning 'able to be'. So mistakable literally means 'able to be taken wrongly', which is why it describes something that can be easily confused for something else.